::MEANING OF DATTA-ATREYA

The human incarnation is constituted by three components. Two of these three components are common to any ordinary human being. These two components are:

1. The visible and imaginable external materialized human body called as Aparaprakriti.

2. The invisible and imaginable internal special work form of inert energy, the awareness or Soul, called as Paraprakriti.

The third component, which is extra in the human incarnation and which is not found in ordinary human beings is the invisible and unimaginable absolute God. The common two components are essentially one and the same and hence, both are called by single word ‘Prakriti’. The soul is the energy and the human body is matter. Energy and matter are inter-convertible forms. The energy component also exists as inert energy in various forms like body heat, shining light of the body and other mechanical works like respiration, digestion, blood circulation etc.

Awareness is also a special work form of inert energy only and the specialty of the work is due to the specific nature of a particular system called brain and nervous system. The same inert energy becomes a specific work called as respiration due to the specific nature of the system called lungs. Therefore, there is no essential difference in the various forms of energy and work is also a form of energy only. Hence, the soul can represent the entire spectrum of energy. Though matter is also a form of energy, matter stands in a separate place compared to the subtle forms of energy like work, heat etc. The difference in the subtle forms is less compared to the difference between matter and energy. All the subtle forms of energy are represented by a wave, which is the inherent characteristic of energy. This wave denotes the Shiva Lingam, which is also in the form the wave. Hence, the energy represents Shiva. The materialized matter represents Vishnu. Since matter and energy are inter-convertible forms, Shiva and Vishnu are said to be one and same (Shivaya Vishnurupaya Shivarupaya Vishnave…).

Shiva is said to be worshipped in the form of Shiva Linga and Vishnu is said to be worshipped in the form of materialized statue as per the curse of Sage Bhrugu. The third component, which is the unimaginable and invisible absolute God, stands for Bramha. Such unimaginable and invisible God cannot be worshipped in any case and hence, it is said that Bramha is not worshipped as per the curse of the Sage. The human body is imaginable and visible entity and hence, can be seen by eyes and physically worshipped. The soul stands for energy, which can be imagined by mind and hence, can be worshipped by mind through meditation. The soul being awareness stands for knowledge and therefore, Shiva is said to be the deity of knowledge (Jnanam Maheswaraat…). The invisible energy can be imagined by inference that can be captured by scientists. The visible materialized human body can be captured through perception by the eyes of even a layman. Hence, all the human beings, whether an ordinary layman or intellectual scientist, can worship the soul and human body. No human being, whether a layman or scientist, can capture the unimaginable God. Thus, the human incarnation is a system of these three components: God, soul and human body. An ordinary human being is a system of only two components: Soul and human body.

If you say that God enters a statue or photo, the soul component is absent, which represents the knowledge. The main purpose of God coming to this world is preaching the spiritual knowledge to the humanity. Therefore, God always enters a selected human being to become the human incarnation. The selection is based on the intensity of the practical devotion of the human being. Of course, it is not wrong to worship the statue or photo as a representative model of God to increase the devotion. This indirect worship increases the devotion and stands as a stepping stone for the direct worship of the human incarnation at a later stage.

Therefore, the human incarnation can be taken as a mixture of the unimaginable-invisible God and the imaginable human being, which consists of the visible body and invisible soul. What is problem in recognizing the human incarnation? The imaginable part is common to every human being and hence, we neglect this part. The unimaginable God can never be captured by our intelligence at any cost. The unimaginable part pervades all over the imaginable part like the current pervading all the over the metallic wire. You are expected to experience the current through the metallic wire. But, you treat the electrified wire like any other non-electrified wire since the current is invisible. Therefore, you neglect the electrified wire also as any other non-electrified wire and miss, using the electrified wire. You neither can catch the unimaginable part nor wish to catch the imaginable part due to negligence. This is the reason for missing the human incarnation in your life. Your negligence is based on your ego and jealousy. It is also foolish to treat every wire as electrified wire. But, this foolish process is somewhat good because at least you will also treat the electrified wire as electrified, among all the wires. This is better than rejecting every wire as non-electrified. Hence, the concept of serving the humanity as service to God is better than rejecting the total humanity believing that God will never exist in human form.

Datta means the unimaginable God given to humanity through the imaginable human form. Atreya means the lack of difference between the three components since they are homogeneously mixed with each other to form a single phase. Therefore, any human incarnation is Datta-Atreya. Of course, any energetic incarnation is also Datta-Atreya since it contains all the three components. But, the energetic incarnation is relevant to the upper world in which the souls in energetic bodies exist. Hence, any energetic incarnation like Vishnu, Shiva, Bramha, Father of heaven etc., and any human incarnation like Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha etc., is Datta-Atreya only.